Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Thought of the day The mysterious character of the Gaussian & its magnetic allure on mathematicians & fooled statisticians comes from the following property: The Fourier transform (& inverse Fourier transform) of a Gaussian is another Gaussian. It seems trivial but ... — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 2, 2022

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2) In fact we know that government is the problem (particularly in the military, t.w. Afghanistan), but the real bloat is in private institutions, particularly universities & hospitals. https://t.co/33W4itKSKr — PolitiTweet.org

the incentive structure that slowly shifts from rewarding efforts to further the institution's core mission to self… https://t.co/FPnKiELeOg

Posted Feb. 2, 2022

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@KarlLandheer The Dirac is the limit of a scaled Gaussian (say a Normal distribution with \sigma tiny. Just a thing to think about. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 2, 2022